As of this morning, a long, drawn–out chapter in my dental history has finally drawn to a close. I had a gold crown (well, really almost an entire tooth) put in place to finally close out the Saga of the…
I began the Your Scottish Slang Word O’ The Day series a month ago primarily as an exercise in motivating myself to blog daily with the potentially beneficial side effect of amusing [all?] my reader[s?] out there. I believe that…
VizaWeb has apparently tracked down and disabled the offending mysql hogs and foresee no further service interruptions, which is a welcome bit of news for this blogger, I can tell you that much. In other LB news, if you’ve visited…
If you attempted to hit the site this morning/last night, you may have noticed a severe lack of, well, site. It appears as if the mysql daemon went hogwild and crashed, thus sucking up all available memory, denying access to…
Y’all don’t see ’em (because I’ve got a nifty blacklisting tool installed) but the comment spammers have returned in full force. I’m going to have to take some dramatic CAPTCHA action very soon. Details to follow.
Man, I had some nifty posts I was ruminating about for today, but work has been a bear. Maybe tomorrow. *sigh*
I had a physical this morning and they drew some blood. Now, I’m not very good with numbers, but they took what I estimated to be about four gallons of blood, which left me a dessicated husk of a man.…
If you haven’t noticed, I’ve installed a polling plugin for WordPress. It’s right over there at the top right of your page… I’m looking for feedback on the Scottish Slang series I’ve got going, so please weigh in via a…
Well, after moving to my new hosting provider, I failed to notice that my permalinks were no longer working. I believe I’ve fixed it, at least for the time being. I’d like to reestablish my old format, but for now,…
As you’ve probably noticed, I appear to have fixed Literal Barrage. Here’s the skinny on what happened, as far as I can tell: Speakeasy (my DSL provider) seems to have performed some maintenance on my DSL circuit or at their…
